My passion is working with college students and young adults on a variety of issues ranging from times of transitions and relationships to major mental illness and substance abuse. I have been providing supportive mental health therapy for ten years and utilize a straight-forward, compassionate approach.

Contemplative Psychotherapy is a mindfulness/awareness approach focusing the therapeutic relationship on the here and now, which might include past discoveries and future inclinations. This method includes various techniques or no technique at all. Depending on what is suitable for the client. I value being present, compassionate, and genuine. I have daily practices that serve to develop a larger capacity to hold and be present with the pain and suffering a client might be experiencing in an accepting manner without bias, or personal reactivity. From this, the client learns to hold and accept their own suffering without rejecting parts of themselves; and thus feels more whole and empowered, seeing that all situations are workable.

My approach is to travel with you on the journey of self-discovery, offering non-judgmental assistance and blending a combination of modalities from my training to suit your needs. These modalities involve both art therapy and body-centered trauma work.

I am trained in Transpersonal Psychology, which acknowledges the whole person, body, mind and spirit. Teaching mindfulness technique, allows you to take care of yourself in new and creative ways. It is important to me that those I work with learn skills to continue their progress outside of therapy, empowering you to find peace and inspiration in your daily life.

Neuroscience provides the foundation for my work with clients and trauma. Helping you to understand your brain's functioning through a neuroscience perspective makes way for profound progress in resolving old traumas.

Bringing a unique & colorful range of education and work experience, I am a mission-driven, lifelong advocate of egalitarian psychiatric rehabilitation. I use techniques, philosophies, and practices from around the world along with common sense from years of working in many different roles to provide clients with personalized and nuanced psychotherapy. I help people move toward their own "self-actualization", wherever they may be. I have worked with people experiencing severe mental illness, people working through criminal sentencing, and the general population. I keep a meditation practice and offer therapy-integrated and/or standalone certified mindfulness/meditation instruction. I have an innate capacity to see and connect with people struggling in difficult places; I meet and understand people no matter who or where they are in life.